That kind of work is satisfying in a special way, it's true

Haha, yeah I feel the same way, I'm afraid I live quite a few towns over but that's what I keep coming back to. I've recently spent an entire day working in the garden, raking leaves, cutting back plants, digging up trees and planting them somewhere else and while it was hard work, all my weird little aches and pains, physically and mentally, just went away. Same thing when we re-tiled the bathroom the other day or when doing new fronts for kitchen cabinets, there's just something wholesome in that kind of activity.